Alexandra Cook, B.A. (Wellesley), M.A. (Virginia), Ph.D. (Cornell)
studied at Wellesley College, the University of Virginia, and Cornell University. She received the PhD in political philosophy from Cornell in 1994, where she specialised in Continental thinkers. She has taught in the College of The University of Chicago, at Colgate University (Hamilton, NY), and at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Her major interests are early modern philosophy and the European Enlightenment, environmental philosophy and history and philosophy of science. She has published a translation and critical edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's botanical writings, and is currently writing a book entitled Jean-Jacques Rousseau and botany: the salutary science.
Tel : (852) 2859 2796
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Email: cookga@hkucc.hku.hk